Isaiah 20:1
CONTENTS In this chapter, the prophet becomes a type, as well as a preacher. The Lord, is pleased to make his servant Isaiah by this means, instruct the church, concerning Egypt and Ethiopia.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS In this chapter, the prophet becomes a type, as well as a preacher. The Lord, is pleased to make his servant Isaiah by this means, instruct the church, concerning Egypt and Ethiopia.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is probable that this event of Tartar's taking Ashdod, formed an epoch in history, so remarkable, that the year needed not to be recorded. And no doubt that the prophet's going about bare-foot, and without his garment of sackcloth, which he usually wore, made the time also memorable. Isaiah it sh... [ Continue Reading ]
It was gracious in the Lord, to explain the meaning of this typical representation, that no misapplication might be made of it. And while the lesson tended to humble both nations, Egypt and Ethiopia, as the Lord designed it; the Lord's mercy to his people Israel, was the more signally displayed. Sur... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! art thou struck with the view of the Prophet becoming a type, as well as a preacher and a prophet in the church of the Lord; and no doubt in the three years walk through the streets of the people, made thereby the drunkard's song, and the sport and derision of the profane; and wi... [ Continue Reading ]